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Young Hutton had annoyed the prison's commander, General Eiichi Kino-shita, by refusing to sign a statement that he had been humanely treated. The general turned him over to one Sergeant Bunzo Yoshida. Sometimes Yoshida's lessons would be taught with water, sometimes with electric shock, sometimes with just the butt of a rifle or the heel of a boot. Then one day Yoshida trussed his naked prisoner up with his head between his legs and his arms strapped behind him, and left him alone. Five days later his fellow prisoners found Hutton stark crazy. Next...
...paddyfield on the village edge, stretcher bearers brought in wounded for relay to Tsaolaochi. About a dozen men in various states of shock and pain lay on the ground. Fresh bandages reeking of alcohol seemed their only care-no plasma or morphine. They suffered stoically. A battalion commander, his throat and shoulder torn by shrapnel, retched helplessly. Another man had a broken ankle bare in the chill air, propped up on a wad of straw...
With the smoke blown away, two things seemed clear: Colonel Adams' visits might have been unfortunately timed, but were scarcely conspiratorial; ex-President Gallegos sounded like a man whose understandable sense of shock and political injustice had overbalanced his usual sense of judgment...
...most part, the adapters have admirably preserved the painful mood, the wry humor and the shock value of the book. Producer-Director Litvak has drawn from their script a picture which is, in many ways, better than the novel...
...even ten Tech Cheerleaders, a thousand partisan fans, and an MIT band were able to revitalize downriver crew after the initial shock of three quick scores...